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tongues wag



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Idioms and Phrases

People are gossiping. For example, Tongues wagged when another police car was parked in front of their house , or Their arrival in a stretch limousine set the neighbors' tongues wagging . This metaphoric expression transfers the rapid movement of the tongue to idle or indiscreet chatter. [Late 1500s]
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Example Sentences

Should I keep her in my household and let the tongues wag, as they were doing, or clatter if Zoe should have a child?

Now or never must he snatch her from difficulty and disgrace—let hostile tongues wag as they pleased—and make her his.

Who would think that those long dusty boxes on the shelves were making scores of iron tongues wag hundreds of miles off?

Deign to keep it in heart, for the neighbours' tongues wag as to Iémon and O'Hana.

Their tongues wag like flowing water until the passers-by are attracted to their stalls.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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